The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

What they found was that the rat moms were, in fact, handing down a message to their pups that changed the way the pups’ stress responses were wired, but the mechanism, the how of the changes, turned out to be not genetic, but epigenetic.